Posted on 05/03/2006 1:02:56 AM PDT by MadIvan
Prince Henrik, the prince consort of Denmark, has shocked animal lovers by declaring that dog meat - fried or grilled - is one of his favourite dishes.
The 72-year-old prince, a Frenchman by birth, said his penchant for dog meat had developed from the time he spent growing up and studying in Vietnam.
But the disclosure, made in an interview with a Danish magazine, has shocked the nation, particularly as the prince is the honorary president of the Danish Dachshund Club.
He has several dachshunds and, despite publishing a cookery book called Ikke Altid Gaselever (Not Always Goose Liver), has even published eulogies to them.
He invited Danes to try eating dog meat themselves. "I do not mind eating dog meat at all," he said. "The dogs I eat have been bred to be eaten anyway, just like chickens.
"It tastes like rabbit, like dry venison, or like veal - just drier." He said the meat tasted best when it was sautéed or grilled and cut into thin slices.
A book of Prince Henrik's poems, in which he praised his dogs, was published last year. A poem to his dachshund Evita compares her paws to "wings".
"I love to stroke your coat and to see how it shines/ You dear, you special dog..../ You receive me with papal pride."
He previously provoked nationwide debate when he suggested that parents should use the skills of dog training to bring up their children.
Since the prince's admission in the magazine Ud&Se, Danish newspapers have reopened their files on a royal dachshund that disappeared from Amalienborg palace, Copenhagen, in the early 1990s. Despite a countrywide search, it never reappeared.
Prince Henrik learnt Danish and changed his name, religion and nationality to marry Queen Margrethe II in 1967. But he has repeatedly complained about the Danes' lack of willingness to accept him.
I would think that this disqualifies him as a "Great Dane".
From the article:
Prince Henrik learnt Danish and changed his name, religion and nationality to marry Queen Margrethe II in 1967.
The other white meat.
I hear they're lined up around the block to get into that fellow's restaurant.
Ok, maybe not "boy-toy". Perhaps "Tenured Gigolo" would be more apt?
What is the Korean saying? "The reason dogs are so friendly is because they don't want you to find out how tasty they are."
ROYALTY, eh?
Tereza: "John! Get that stupid look off your face, and get in here!!"
Go Astros!
Consorts are always spouses as far as I know. the term just means the person has no governing or ceremonial powers.
The Russian wolfhounds, Irish setters, English bulldogs, Italian greyhounds and the French poodles voted to impose agricultural sanctions on Denmark.
No Fry Dog ping!
Whenever I read news about dog meats, I'm constantly reminded of news articles in Asia that say "eating dog meat is our culture. Banning it is the frontline of Western cultural imperialism!"
I remember an article in a 1970s issue magazine by a then very elderly author, which contained a reference to dogs and Chinese people. He wrote bitterly that while the Europeans (yangren, or whites in Mandarin Chinese) treated dogs as pets and not allowing Chinese to eat them, in Shanghai during the Treaty-port era there was a big sign at the main park in the international leased sector (in practice run by the British) that sated "No entry for Chinese and dogs." meaning they (the whites) regarded Chinese as like dogs.
Not that I agree with that author, who lived through the nastiest episodes of Western imperialism bully in China that lasted until WWII, but his thoughts correspond to the average Chinese of my great-grandfather's generation about differences in attitudes towards dogs among Chinese and Westerners, and Western attitudes towards Chinese back then being no different from their attitudes towards dogs. His bitterness, given the context of the time, is understandable.
IMHO the era of eating dogs is now long gone, and I wouldn't eat them myself. In Chinese circles today, anyone who still want to dogs are probably over 65 by now.
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